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Survey says: 53% of American adults play video games |
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This survey applies to all platforms of video gaming - PC, console, portable, cellphones, and whatever you can play a game on.
For the gender figures, the survey shows that the dudes are just slightly more likely to play than the ladies. 55% of the male respondents play, while it's 50% of the ladies.
Even the gramps n grannies aren't missing out on the gaming scene! 23% of the 65-and-up bracket play games. That's good to hear, and that figure will shoot right up when the rest of us reach that age.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey, October-December 2007.
N= 2,054 total adults, margin of error is ±2%.
* These groups are significantly more likely to play games than the other groups.
†English-speaking Hispanics are more likely to play games, but this is a factor of
the overall youth of the population, rather than any difference independently
attributable to ethnicity.
They also checked if race, income, education, and location played any roles. Check the chart out for yourself. Notice that there are only three items there under 50%: The 65 years old and up bracket (23%); the less than highschool folks (40%); and the rural area residents (47%) - understandable figures, I think. What about you? Share your thoughts.
More surveys:
- Survey says: Rock Band and Guitar Hero turns gamers into musicians
- Ad-ology: TV ads still important to gamers
Via Pew
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Did anyone ask you?
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They only need to ask 1000+ people to come up with a workable average...
If they asked EVERYONE, then it wouldn't be an average, it would be a definitive study....
Someone needs to take statistics.
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"Averages are worthless."
I already stated it was an average.
1. Only asking 1000 people out of 6,602,224,175 is about a useful as Shatterdome's pathetic brain. So, not at all!
2. Who the hell said it MUST be an average? Had they asked everyone then the data would be 100% valid. REAL data is better then statistical data....you should have paid better attention in your stat class.
How many times am I going to lay you out flat?
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...or you should have. The first thing they talk about in Stats when it comes to survey vs. census is the limitations of each one.
Of course a survey won't be 100% accurate, but it will almost always be reasonably close (close enough that it would not drastically change the overall outcome).
Yes, a census would give an accurate number, but do you remember the biggest limitations on a census? Time, staff, money, ability to reach each subject, et cetra.
Would a cencus give better numbers? Yes
Would you be out of your mind to waste that much money and manpower on one? Yes
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"Would a cencus give better numbers? Yes"
So, in other words...I'm right and I should have paid more attention for....what? No good reason?
To begin with, we have missing info. How many people they asked! Either way, people are too diverse for this to work.
Case in point, someone with money and time to waste set out to prove that the "Family Fued" was a bunch of BS. 100 people? They upped a sample set of recorded result to 10,000 people. The percentages were over 90% different. Then they upped it to 100,000. Again, they changed drastically.
Stats are BS.
So, when I claimed that stat averages are no good and that a wide sample is better AND YOU AGREED.....what's the problem again? The money it would take? WTH does that have to do with which are better? WTH does that have to do with the fact that results in this article, in my opinion, are crap.
I don't care if it cost them $1. Worthless is worthless.
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Good, at least you admit that you are ok with "worthless" "information". That's pretty much what you are full of so that fits in well.
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